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Advanced Manufacturing: Measurement and Sensing Pilot

Advanced Manufacturing: Measurement and Sensing Pilot is a grant of up to £80,420 for micro, small and medium-sized businesses across the UK developing measurement or sensing technology for advanced manufacturing supply chains. This scheme has closed.

Run by Innovate UK · funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)

Last read from find-government-grants.service.gov.uk on 5 Oct 2026.

This scheme has closed

It closed on 7 October 2026. It stays here in case it reopens; check with the organisation for future rounds. We do not know where it was open, so these are for the whole North.

UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £1 million as part of a pilot. This is to support high potential businesses developing a technology, product or service in measurement, instrumentation or sensing for UK manufacturing.

Status and deadline

Status

Closed

Confirmed on the official page

Deadline

Closed 7 October 2026

As stated: Opening date: 26 August 2026, 10:00am ... Closing date: 7 October 2026, 11:00am

Confirmed on the official page

How much

Up to £80,420

Whole fund: £1,000,000, shared between applicants

Confirmed on the official page

Who can apply

UK registered micro, small or medium sized enterprise (SME). Core business activity must be developing a technology, product or service based on measurement, sensing or instrumentation that solves a problem faced by advanced manufacturing supply chains in the UK. The problem must relate to improving productivity, resource efficiency or resilience. Supply chains must be part of at least one of: Automotive, Aerospace, Battery, Space, or commercial production of Advanced Materials. Business must aim to grow and scale in the UK. Funded activities must start by 1 March 2027 and end no later than 30 November 2027. Must carry out work in the UK, intend to exploit results in the UK, and spend most funding within the UK. Must not exceed Minimal Financial Assistance limit of £315,000 in a 3-year rolling financial period. Cannot have failed to exploit a previously funded project, have an overdue independent accountant's report, or failed to comply with grant terms and conditions. Only one application per eligible business.

Not confirmed on the official page

Business size

Micro (under 10 staff), Small (10 to 49 staff), Medium (50 to 249 staff)

Confirmed on the official page

How to apply

Submit application through the online portal.

Not confirmed on the official page

Where it is open: UK-wide

United Kingdom

Confirmed on the official page

HartlepoolMiddlesbroughRedcar and ClevelandStockton-on-TeesDarlingtonHaltonWarringtonBlackburn with DarwenBlackpoolKingston upon Hull, City ofEast Riding of YorkshireNorth East LincolnshireNorth LincolnshireYorkCounty DurhamCheshire EastCheshire West and ChesterNorthumberlandCumberlandWestmorland and FurnessNorth YorkshireBurnleyChorleyFyldeHyndburnLancasterPendlePrestonRibble ValleyRossendaleSouth RibbleWest LancashireWyreBoltonBuryManchesterOldhamRochdaleSalfordStockportTamesideTraffordWiganKnowsleyLiverpoolSt. HelensSeftonWirralDoncasterRotherhamNewcastle upon TyneNorth TynesideSouth TynesideSunderlandBradfordCalderdaleKirkleesLeedsWakefieldGatesheadBarnsleySheffield

Open across United Kingdom, so every council area in the North of England is shaded.

Drawn from the areas the funder names. If a scheme is only for part of a council area, check its own page. Boundaries from the Office for National Statistics.

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Source and last checked

Local Landscape gathers this information automatically from the pages below, then checks the key details against the official page. Last read from find-government-grants.service.gov.uk on 5 Oct 2026. Its details last changed on 5 Oct 2026. No person has checked it, so confirm the details with Innovate UK before you apply.

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